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The Toronto Blue Jays' pursuit of Dan Duquette has become a fascinating story on many levels, but one question keeps hitting me amid all the will-he-or-won’t-he speculation: What is Duquette actually worth? It’s a more nebulous issue than you might think. When we analyze player-for-player transactions, we do so based on thousands upon thousands of past deals and on wide-ranging, fairly precise tools for measuring performance. Even so, trades are an inexact science at best, with the full implications often unclear for years. So start from that base and then consider how little precedent we have with executive-for-player deals and how imprecisely we measure executive...

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The Toronto Blue Jays' pursuit of Dan Duquette has become a fascinating story on many levels, but one question keeps hitting me amid all the will-he-or-won’t-he speculation: What is Duquette actually worth?
It’s a more nebulous issue than you might...

Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette was named the Sporting News Executive of the Year on Monday evening at the general managers' meetings in Phoenix.
Duquette built an Orioles team that won 96 games and claimed the American League East division...

The big trade deadline shoe dropped early Thursday morning, and it landed in an unexpected place for an unexpected value.
The Boston Red Sox dealt their ace and pending free agent left-hander Jon Lester as well as outfielder Jonny Gomes and some cash...

If reports are true that the Oakland Athletics have made their second blockbuster deal of the summer and sent Cuban slugger Yoenis Cespedes to the Red Sox for Jon Lester and Jonny Gomes, then there’s really only one way to look at the situation:
A’s...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Before Michael Lewis' book "Moneyball" hit the best sellers list and before Brad Pitt brought Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane to the big screen in the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name, the concept of...

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Earl Weaver’s last great season as a manager, 1982, coincided with my first as a young baseball fan, growing up in Baltimore. So in a sense, he has always been the manager — the Platonic ideal of the species — for me.
What I didn’t know until later was...

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The Roger Clemens mistrial was viewed with relief around Major League Baseball. Commissioner Bud Selig and his lieutenants weren't as worried about Clemens' standing as they were about any new revelations that could have come up in sworn...

Monday’s news that highly touted free-agent outfielder Yoenis Cespedes chose to sign with the Oakland Athletics is understandably unwelcome to a large segment of an Orioles fan base disgusted by 14 years of losing and underwhelmed by the club’s...

He walks into camp on time, introduces himself while in the company of his family, his wife and their two boys, before speaking about the significance of his faith.He says he now goes to church, and that he prays. And he adds that he signed with the...

Beane changed gamePeter SchmuckBaltimore SunHow could it not be? Michael Lewis' book was a best-seller and has been condensed into a movie starring Brad Pitt. The movie's producers and director had no choice but to take some...

How great was that Wednesday night, when the Orioles, perennial wallflower at the baseball party, finally got in on the action?But also, and alas, how fleeting.As crazy thrilling as it was to watch the O's, down to their last strike, beating the Red Sox...

WhispersKeep an eye on the Blue Jays when teams start throwing around money this fall. After brilliantly ridding themselves of Vernon Wells and Alex Rios, the Blue Jays are expected to become major players in free agency within the next...

Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette, who engineered one of the best turnarounds in baseball this season by taking the long suffering Orioles to the postseason for the first time in 15 years, was surprisingly shut out in the voting for this...

When Dan Duquette was hired roughly a year ago as the club’s executive vice president, the Orioles pointed to his impressive track record in the past with the Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox. He was in charge of some very good teams – although none...

Fifteen months ago, Dan Duquette was still outside looking in, trying to get back into major league baseball after nearly a decade away.Now, after a whirlwind stretch in which he was the surprise hire for the Orioles’ top executive post and then put...

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In today’s Sun, you can read about the Orioles’ plan for Dylan Bundy and Kevin Gausman; the promise d

When sifting through the national media's coverage of the Orioles this offseason, it isn’t tough to notice a trend.
The pundits love Dylan Bundy, they really like Buck Showalter – but ultimately they’re pretty sold that the Orioles are going to have a...

Billy Beane knows the Yoenis Cespedes question is coming, because it's always looming when you talk about the A's these days. This is seven months after the A's general manager controversially dealt Cespedes for pending free agent ace Jon Lester,...